3.3 Lesson: Imagery


Sparking Your Senses


Target


Assignment


Poetry uses imagery (vivid descriptive language) to jump start one or more of your body's senses (sight, taste, touch, smell, sound) and movement.
Even the feeling of hunger or thirst is a kind of sensory image.


  1. Sort pasta, beads, seashells, or buttons by

      • size
      • shape
      • colour
      • texture

  1. Sort or classify flowers, herbs, or fruits and vegetables by

      • smell
      • taste

  1. Sort animals by

      • sound
Which animals make loud/soft, joyful/menacing, lively/boring sounds?
Is this a stereotype (a widely held but oversimplified image of a something or an item)?
For example, perhaps you put a tiger's growl in the menacing category. But what else does a tiger sound like? Can a tiger make a joyful chuff? A soft grumble? A playful grunt? What would 'pooking' sound like?

Poets rearrange people, animals or things out of their usual categories to give us a fresh look at them.

Examine the close up photos of four objects that are probably familiar to you. List the details you observe and then try to identify each object.  

 

Feather



Bumblebee



Coca cola bubbles






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